If your clean water dilemma is how to clean water
marks from glass vases, you're just touching the tip of this iceberg.
If your water is clean, should it leave water marks on glass vases?

SECRET: You can clean water marks from glass vases. I don't guarantee
this will work on every vase, and urge you to use these ideas at your
own risk, but here they are. Mix equal parts of cold tea with vinegar,
and dissolve a denture cleaner tablet in the mixture. Or fill the vase
with water and drop in 2 Alka Seltzer tablets. Soak your vase overnight
in either solution, rinse, and dry.

Ten Reasons Why We Need to Clean Water

1. Clean water is vital to the human body.

The human body is 50 to 70 per cent water, and needs a regular supply of
clean water to maintain health. We need clean drinking water. We need
clean water for cooking and making beverages. Healthy eating and clean
water go hand in hand. We must work to clean water worldwide in order to
maintain sufficient sources to supply this need.

2. Clean water is vital to our food.

If we fail to clean water and keep it clean, we will be shut up to a
diet of contaminated food. Not only fish, but other meats, fruits, and
vegetables will deliver contamination to us. If we want healthful, clean
fish to leap forth from rivers, streams, and oceans, we will have to
clean water. If we want healthful, organic produce, we will have to
clean water used to irrigate produce.

3. Clean water is vital to human health.

Clean drinking water is vital to health, yet the UN and the World Health
Organization (WHO) report that 1.1 billion people around the globe lack
access to clean drinking water. The health consequences are
devastating. The UN attributes 2.2 million deaths annually to poor water
and sanitation. If we clean water, provide better sanitation, and teach
people how to keep water clean, future generations can enjoy longer and
healthier lives.

4. Clean water is essential for water sports.

A swimmer in clean water is safe from illnesses and diseases produced by
contaminated and toxic water. A surfer does not have to fear swallowing
water in a wipe out. Boaters and others who use our water for
recreation can relax without concern about pollutants. Yet, 27 years
after the passage of the 1972 Clean Water Act, 40% of our rivers, lakes,
and estuaries were still too polluted for safe swimming and similar
water sports.

5. Clean water is essential for fish and other wildlife species.

As humans, we must consider the needs of fish, whales, water fowl, and
other wildlife species that live in water. We must clean water when
there are oil spills, of course, but we must also work to clean water
flowing into our oceans, lakes, rivers, and streams. We must clean water
for wildlife that does not live in the water, but depends on clean
water for health and cleanliness.

6. We need to clean water to cut down on our carbon footprint.

The emissions involved in producing bottled water are astounding. Pablo
Päster, Sustainability Engineer and MBA, did a thorough and exhaustive
study of the cost of bringing a single liter of Fiji Water to America.
He found that bottlers use nearly seven times as much water to bottle it
than you actually drink. The total amount of water used to produce and
deliver one bottle of imported water is 6.74 kg! In the process of
making the bottle, getting water into the bottle, and delivering it to
you, 250g of GHG emissions were released.

7. We need to clean water to cut down on refuse.

Each plastic drinking-water bottle takes hundreds of years to biodegrade
in a landfill. Many plastic drinking-water bottles litter the
countryside. Some will be recycled, but the recycling process is said to
pollute the environment with toxic carcinogens. If we clean water so
that it is truly free of contaminants, additives, bacteria, and virus,
people are less likely to rely on bottled water.

8. Clean rain and snow are not givens.

Rain is just one step in the water cycle. Pure rain does not
automatically fall through the universe, filtered by the atmosphere and
delivered from pure clouds. Neither does pure snow. The rain, snow, and
other precipitation we receive find their way into the sky from bodies
of water on earth. If we fail to clean water on earth, we will have
increasingly polluted precipitation. Polluted precipitation is harmful
to everyone and everything on which it falls.

9. We need clean water for all-around cleanliness.

Whether it's your laundry in the Maytag washer, your carpet beneath the
cleaning machine, or your body under the shower, clean water is
necessary for all-around cleanliness. From early preschool years onward,
children are taught proper hygiene - and it depends on clean water.

10. The consequences of inadequate access to clean water are too great.

Many have expressed growing concern that water wars are more likely in
the future than current battles for oil. Where access to clean water is
the very essence of life, "no water" may mean "no peace." A failure to
clean water now may result in global warfare for future generations.

You may be able to add more reasons. You may substitute different
reasons, but the bottom line is still the same. We need to clean water.

It is wiser, and less costly, to keep water clean than to try to clean
water that has become dirty and polluted. Will we develop such wisdom
for the remaining clean water we have?